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Jerry Del Colliano is the Director of Thornton Executive Programs in Music Industry and Clinical Professor of Music Industry at the University of Southern California. He discusses the faculty of the USC Thornton School of Music. Thornton has quite a diverse faculty. It is made up of musicians, academicians, and clinical staff. This gives students a more balanced education. Del Colliano explains that their goal is to study things that need to be studied. Also in this segment, he talks about student centered learning. Student centered learning was invented at Thornton. It is helpful to the individual student because it provides one on one instruction. Del Colliano covers Thornton's next step as well. USC's plan is to pick a group of student entrepreneurs and provides the same student centered learning.